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Fast Track

Subway construction on Broadway and 38th Street in New York City, sometime between 1908 and 1920. New York City’s subway officially opened on October 27, 1904. According to a New York Timesreport of the opening night, New Yorkers more than a century ago were already hard to impress. “The Manhattanites boarded the trains with the sneaking air of men who were ashamed to admit that they were doing something new,” the reporter wrote.